†unranked clade Mekosuchinae Balouet and Buffetaut 1987

Reptilia - Crocodylia

Full reference: J.-C. Balouet and E. Buffetaut. 1987. Mekosuchus inexpectatus, n. g., n. sp., Crocodilien nouveau de l'Holocene de Nouvelle Caledonie [Mekosuchus inexpectatus, n.g., n.sp., a new Holocene crocdilian from New Caledonia]. Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences. Serie II 304(14):853-856

Parent taxon: Crocodyloidea according to J. Ristevski et al. 2022

See also Molnar et al. 2002, Rio and Mannion 2021 and Salisbury and Willis 1996

Sister taxa: Albertosuchus, Antecrocodylus, Asiatosuchus, Astorgosuchus, Brachyuranochampsa, Brasilosuchus, Crocodylidae, Pallimnarchus, Pallimnarchus pollens, Prodiplocynodon, Qianshanosuchus

Subtaxa: Australosuchus Kalthifrons Kambara Mekosuchini Ultrastenos

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Distribution:

• Quaternary of Australia (9 collections), Fiji (2), New Caledonia (5), Vanuatu (1)

• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Australia (3)

• Pliocene of Australia (5)

• Miocene of Australia (8)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Australia (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (12)

• Eocene of Australia (3)

Total: 49 collections including 59 occurrences

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